Sun, Oct 25, 08:57 PM ENNIS - Federal-Mogul Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Ed Dykes

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Dragster at the 13th annual NHRA Revell Nationals:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   6 Darren Nicholson    5.539 255.60  Q   7 Rick Santos         5.541 252.66
   (D Hitchman  ) 0.441  5.638 254.16 E1   (J Costanza  ) 0.479  5.539 250.69
   (S Gay       ) 0.421  5.712 253.09 E2   (B Hynes     ) 0.423  5.510 255.31
                  0.000 (Broke)       E3 *****WINNER***** 0.598  5.557 254.30

2:42 PM and Nicholson is a no-show for this round, so Santos gets a free round in his quest for the championship. Santos increased his lead in the national points chase over Darrell Russell to 54 points with his win last weekend.

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
  12 Darrell Russell     5.663 250.48  Q   1 Rick Henkelman      5.446 257.95
   (S Howard    ) 0.422  5.631 256.11 E1   (J Thompson  ) 0.611  5.438 257.73
   (T Beecham   ) 0.440  5.669 253.23 E2   (S Bowen     ) 0.448  5.452 249.65
                  0.472  8.558 111.20 E3 *****WINNER***** 0.507  5.434 255.89

Russell was shaking hard off the line, the a pop ended his day, the supercharger moving around on top of the engine as he coasted downtrack. No matter, henkelman sets the low ET of the weekend, he would have been hard to beat there.